Introduction / by Neal Ascherson

Chronology of modern Poland

Editors' preface / translated by Celina Wieniewska

Notes on biography / by Edmund Szczesiak ; translated by Celina Wieniewska

Lech Wałęsa: the man who spoke up / by Bolesław Fac ; translated by Jacek Laskowski

Growing / by Andrzej Drzycimski ; translated by Celina Wieniewska

The man of what? / by Lech Bądkowski ; translated by Celina Wieniewska

On the difference between a "worker" and a "representative of the working class" / by Maria Janion ; translated by Bolesław Taborski

"He is most certainly a tribune of the people" / by Jerzy Kołodziejski ; translated by Bolesław Taborski

"Be great, Mr Wałę̨sa" / by Grzegorz Fortuna ; translated by Jacek Laskowski

Wałęsa's role in August 1980: extracts from memoirs / translated by Jacek Laskowski

"I am indebted for it to this man with a moustache": an interview with Andrzej Wajdą̨ / by Maria Mrozińska ; translated by Bolesław Taborski

Wałe̢sa, an action portrait: Lech Wałe̢sa interviewed by Marzena and Tadeusz Woźniak / translated by Jacek Laskowski.